Bitfinex Enables Deposits and Withdrawals for Tether USD (USDt) on Celo

We're pleased to announce that Bitfinex customers will be able to deposit and withdraw Tether USD (USDt) using the Celo transport layer, effective 1:30 PM UTC on 27/03/2024.

This new feature follows the integration of USDt onto Celo, a mobile-first platform designed to make financial Decentralised Applications and crypto payments accessible to anyone with a smartphone.

Following this latest integration, Bitfinex customers are now able to deposit USDt across 17 blockchains and withdraw USDt across 14 blockchains*. This includes Algorand, Avalanche, Bitcoin Cash's Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), Ethereum, EOS, Liquid Network, Omni, Polygon, Tezos, Tron, Solana, Polkadot, Kusama, the Near Network, Kava, zkEVM and now, Celo.

* Withdrawals of USDt on Kusama, Bitcoin Cash SLP, and Omni Layer blockchains are no longer being supported as of 01/09/2023. See the full announcement here.

The CELO token is also available to trade on Bitfinex against USD and USDt

For more information on Celo, please visit https://celo.org/.